[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I am actually searching for legal definition of woman and all I can find is 'WOMEN, persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty.'

Scientifically this is the case also.

Dictionaries need to be updated also (1 a : a female person : a woman or a girl b : an individual that bears young or produces large usually immobile gametes (as eggs) that are fertilized by small usually motile gametes of a male.= apparently...), and surely the word woman should be done away with entirely if there is not actually a clear definition of what a woman (or man) is anymore?

I don't think the word needs to be done away with, or that the definition has even changed that much. Everyone who has always been considered a woman still is ie. people who were born biologically as female, it's just that it now also includes people who have transitioned. (In terms of 'definition' I'm basing this new inclusion on the Gender Recognition Act)

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

its a sensationalised claim that was being made though really. Quite rightly, someone who changes sex shouldn't be re-evaluated for a role purely on that basis, but equally, its a bit of a stretch to suggest that its a major breakthrough for women, when it really isn't.

I agree with that, but reading the articles I don't think it really is being. I know there's excerpts that are saying as much, and maybe it's sensationalised more than it needs to be (but then doesn't the media do that with everything?) but they all seem to be making it perfectly clear in the headlines and throughout the articles that the person being referred to is transsexual.